hi guys, i have a really simply question, why doesn't these two snippets of code do the same thing? 1) 
my @a;
$a[0] = 5;
$a[1] = 2;
for(my $n=0;$n < scalar(@a); $n++) {
    $b[$n] = sprintf("%.2f", $a[$n];
}
print "$b[0] : $b[1]\n";

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2) 
my @a;
$a[0] = 5;
$a[1] = 2;
$b[0] = sprintf("%.2f", $a[0];
$b[1] = sprintf("%.2f", $a[1];

print "$b[0] : $b[1]\n";

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basically the first snippet doesn't set $b[1] it only sets $b[0], is this something weird with sprintf or something dodgey with my for loop?

cheers
Dave

Edit kudra, 2001-11-04 Corrected markup

In reply to sprintf and for loop weirds??? by Anonymous Monk

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